A BILL to make certain hospital licenses effective until
December 1, 2018.

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Patron-- Stanley

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Referred to Committee on Education and Health

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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. §1.
That, notwithstanding any other provision of law, any
license issued to an acute care hospital
located in Patrick County
that was valid on September 1, 2017,
and remained valid on December 31, 2017,
despite the closure of such hospital prior to December 31, 2017, shall continue
to remain valid until December 31, 2018.

§2.
That, notwithstanding the requirements of §32.1-102.3 of the
Code of Virginia and regulations of the Board of Health,
the recommencement of any project by an
acute care hospital located in Patrick County that occurs as the result of the
closure of an existing licensed hospital for which a
certificate was previously issued or for which no
certificate was required at the
time at which the project was first commenced, and the
subsequent sale and reestablishment of such hospital where
such recommencement of such project occurs within one year of the date on which
such hospital closed, shall
not constitute a project for the purposes of issuance of a certificate of
public need, and no certificate
of public need shall be required for the recommencement of
such project. However, any conditions imposed on any
such certificate issued to the
existing licensed hospital prior to
its closure, sale, or reestablishment
shall continue to be in effect until such time as the conditions are satisfied
or a new certificate is
issued for the hospital.

2. That the provisions of this act shall
be effective retroactively to December 31, 2017.

3. That an emergency exists and this act
is in force from its passage.